Friday, 11 December 2015

20+ Best Ever Cool Notepad Tips And Tricks

We all are very much familiar with one of the simplest text editor that is Notepad provided by Microsoft. It comes pre-installed in every version of Microsoft Windows. It comes with simple to use interface and handy features. Notepad is a perfect solution for quick notes storage or anything in text that would like to save immediately. The extension used by Notepad to save files is .txt. We can call it as light weight text editor and I don't need to explain the reason.

Notepad Tips & Tricks

Actually Notepad was designed for text editing and programming both. We can use it for multitasking; from a text editor to destroy someone's personal computer. Yeah, I said it right; you can perform programming codes within Notepad to execute several pranks easily. It's just not used for .txt extension rather opens several unknown extensions. Hundreds of programming commands are in-built in it. We just need to execute them using several extensions. Just write the commands, save it, compile it and you're done. Today in this guide I am going to show you some cool notepad tricks and tips. All these note pad tricks depend on your hardware so it can happen that some of them might not work for you. And try them on your own risk, we won't be responsible for any data loss or system crash.

20+ Cool Notepad Tricks And Tips

1. Fake Windows Error Using Notepad
If you want to show fake error message in your friend's system then use this trick.

Open Notepad.

Now Type X=Msgbox(“Message Here”,0+16,”Title Here”)

Replace Message Here and Title Here with your Error Message and Error-Window Title respectively.

Save the file with Windows_Error.vbs.

Now, double click on the file and see the error message made by you.

2. Create Password Protected Folder Using Notepad

This trick can be used if you don't wanna use any third party tool to lock your folder. This will build a folder with a password on it.

Your system is having antivirus? If yes, then do you want to check whether it is working or not? simply use the below code.

Open Notepad.

Copy the following code:

X5O!P%@AP[4PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

Save the file as antivirustest.COM.

If your antivirus’ real-time protection is working perfectly, it will show you alert and quarantine the file by considering it malware.

7. Use Your Notepad as Diary

Open your Notepad.

Type following piece of code in Notepad:

.LOG (in capital letters)

Save it as Anything.txt.

Open it again.

When you open the file again you will see the current date and time being inserted automatically after the .LOG line.

This will happen automatically every time you reopen the the notepad file.

8. Shutdown Your Windows Forcefully Using Notepad

Open Notepad.

@echo off

msg * System will now shut down

shutdown -c “Bye!” –s

Save the file as shutdown.BAT.

Open the file and it will automatically shutdown your Windows.

9. Toggle Capslock Repeatedly Using Notepad

You can make someone fool using toggle Caps Lock repeatedly. Use the following piece of code for this awesome trick.

Open your Notepad.

Just copy and Paste the code written down below into notepad.

Set wshShell =wscript.CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”)

do

wscript.sleep 100

wshshell.sendkeys “{CAPSLOCK}”

loop

Now save it as togglecl.vbs file and open it to see the magic.

10. How To Type Slow In Notepad

This trick will force you to type the text slowly. It happens because of delay in different strings when you type.

Just copy and paste the text below into notepad and save it as typeslow.vbs file.

WScript.Sleep 180000

WScript.Sleep 10000

Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”)

WshShell.Run “notepad”

WScript.Sleep 100

WshShell.AppActivate “Notepad”

WScript.Sleep 500

WshShell.SendKeys “Hel”

WScript.Sleep 500

WshShell.SendKeys “lo ”

WScript.Sleep 500

WshShell.SendKeys “, ho”

WScript.Sleep 500

WshShell.SendKeys “w a”

WScript.Sleep 500

WshShell.SendKeys “re ”

WScript.Sleep 500

WshShell.SendKeys “you”

WScript.Sleep 500

WshShell.SendKeys “? ”

WScript.Sleep 500

WshShell.SendKeys “I a”

WScript.Sleep 500

WshShell.SendKeys “m g”

WScript.Sleep 500

WshShell.SendKeys “ood”

WScript.Sleep 500

WshShell.SendKeys ” th”

WScript.Sleep 500

WshShell.SendKeys “ank”

WScript.Sleep 500

WshShell.SendKeys “s! “

Double click on the file and start typing in notepad.

11. Make Computer Speak What You Want

This Notepad trick will make computer to speak whatever you type. To take benefit, simply execute below mentioned code.

Open Notepad.

Copy & paste this command:

Dim message, sapi

message=InputBox(“What do you want me to say?”,”Speak to Me”)

Set sapi=CreateObject(“sapi.spvoice”)

sapi.Speak message

Save the file as speaktext.vbs.

Double click on the file and it will open a window. Enter the text you want your computer to speak

Click OK and Notepad will speak the sentence for you.

12. Cool World Trade Center Attack Trick

According to this trick, if you enter the flight number of the flight that struck the twin tower, i.e. Q33N in notepad and then change the font type to ‘wingdings’ and the font size to 72, then you’ll see a very strange thing.

It's one of the awesome trick but unfortunately is a hoax as no such flight struck the twin towers.

13. Delete Startup Files Using Notepad

Open Notepad and type below code.

@ECHO OFF

ATTRIB -R -S -H C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT

DEL C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT

ATTRIB -R -S -H C:\BOOT.INI

DEL C:\BOOT.INI

ATTRIB -R -S -H C:\NTLDR

DEL C:\NTLDR

ATTRIB -R -S -H C:\WINDOWS\WIN.INI

DEL C:\WINDOWS\WIN.INI

SAVE IT AS .BAT FILE.

This will shut the computer down and delete all the files required to get your computer into a normal state.

Try this trick on your own risk.

14. Hit Enter Continuously Using Notepad

If you're in a need of hitting enter button continuously for several times then rather pressing it manually you can use below code.

Set wshShell = wscript.CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”)

do

wscript.sleep 100

wshshell.sendkeys “~(enter)”

loop

Save it as entercontinue.vbs file and keep ready to amaze.

15. Hit Backspace Continuously Using Notepad

Similarly if you wish to press backspace button continuously then this would be the perfect code for you.

MsgBox “Backspace again and again and AGAIN”

Set wshShell =wscript.CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”)

do

wscript.sleep 100

wshshell.sendkeys “{bs}”

loop

Save as backspaceC.vbs file and hit enter.

16. Typing Something Again and Again

It's an fabulous code to type something again and again. You can use it to write anything again and again and again, until you get it out of the loop.